David Pratt: Negotiations with Team 1040 at an impasse

A smaller league, with strictly Canadian match-ups, and one game per week outdrew a crappy Wednesday night hockey game on TSN? I'm a CFL fan, but these comparisons hold absolutely no water. Hockey coverage is diluted by regional Rogers broadcasts, and CBC. TSN often pulls pretty poor NHL match-ups (such as two US teams on a Wednesday night). It's pretty obvious a CFL game between BC/Montreal would outdraw a mid-week TSN broadcasted game between Pit/Flor or something. I'd like to see how these numbers change with TSN being the official Winnipeg Jets broadcaster this year.

The only way this makes sense, is if you put a regular season BC/Montreal game versus a Canucks/Habs game on the same day, at the same time and see which draws better.

Most of TSN's Wednesday Night Hockey games (their appointment viewing night) now have at least one Canadian team.

Also the CFL plays during the summer and on the weekend when many people are out and about due to it not you know not being winter...

And TSN is the Jets regional broadcaster, just like how Sportsnet is the regional broadcaster for the Canucks. So the fact that TSN has those rights won't have an affect on the numbers for the Wednesday Night games.

A smaller league, with strictly Canadian match-ups, and one game per week outdrew a crappy Wednesday night hockey game on TSN? I'm a CFL fan, but these comparisons hold absolutely no water. Hockey coverage is diluted by regional Rogers broadcasts, and CBC. TSN often pulls pretty poor NHL match-ups (such as two US teams on a Wednesday night). It's pretty obvious a CFL game between BC/Montreal would outdraw a mid-week TSN broadcasted game between Pit/Flor or something. I'd like to see how these numbers change with TSN being the official Winnipeg Jets broadcaster this year.

The only way this makes sense, is if you put a regular season BC/Montreal game versus a Canucks/Habs game on the same day, at the same time and see which draws better.

Agreed. Delusional Roughrider fans.

The games TSN usually get aren't that great and involve teams (2 US markets) that many Canadians couldn't care about. I'd love to see a comparison of Lions vs Alo's and Canucks vs Canadians. The viewership wouldn't even be close I don't think... and that's even with the hockey teams having 81 other televised games during the regular season.

The games TSN usually get aren't that great and involve teams (2 US markets) that many Canadians couldn't care about. I'd love to see a comparison of Lions vs Alo's and Canucks vs Canadians. The viewership wouldn't even be close I don't think... and that's even with the hockey teams having 81 other televised games during the regular season.

Sorry CFL fans, it ain't even close.

All I was getting at is the CFL is not some ignored league being pumped up by a radio station who does the play by play, and is owned by the same corporation that also owns TSN. No one is suggesting the CFL is doing 'better' than the NHL, but it gets respectable support.